INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

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Production and Operations Management MGT613

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INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

POMA

Previously called Production Management

Then Production and Operations Management

Often called Operations Management

Should not be confused with Operations Research or Production Management which are the domain

of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.

THE COURSE CONTENT

Tentative Course Content Units of Learning wise

Unit I ( Introduction and Productivity, Strategy and Competitiveness)

Unit II ( Forecasting)

Unit III ( Design of Production Systems)

Unit III ( Quality)

Unit V ( Operating and Controlling the System)

Tentative Course Content Lecture wise

Unit I ( 5 Lectures)

Unit II (3 Lectures)

Unit III ( 12 Lectures)

Unit III ( 10 Lectures)

Unit V ( 15 Lectures)

History of Management

Frederick Taylor and Gilbreths (Lillian and Frank Gilbreth) are pioneers of transforming

management to scientific domain.

Borrows a lot of information from Engineering and Management to give an overall bigger picture of

operating and managing any organization.

Difference between Operations Management and Research

OR relies on mathematical modeling and OM relies on practical scenarios/industrial cases.

OR domain and tool of Engineers while OM is considered to be one of the critical tools of

Managers.

OR considered more powerful to improve the whole system where as OM can be applied to a part of

the system.

OR relies on mathematical modeling while OM relies on practical scenarios/industrial cases.

Why Study OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Operations Management form core of any organization's senior leadership.

What are organizations

An organization is a business entity that can work for profit or non profit purposes to generate a

value added product or service for its customers.

Whether profit or non profit, the role of an OPERATIONS MANAGER is to sustain, protect, and

project the company's operations side.

Why Operations Manager

Every organization must manage processes and operations by which processes are performed.

Production and Operations Management MGT613

An operations Manager controls the processes by which value is added from conversion of inputs to

outputs.

Why Operations Manager

Inputs include materials, inventory, services, land, and energy, human and capital resources.

Bridge between Management and Engineering

Two Islands named Engineering and Management

Operations management uses foundations of both Engineering and Management.

Bridge Basics , Extension of road from both ends till they meet at the centre and fuse to give

strength and allow the foundations to give added strength to the bridge

Bridge between Management and Engineering. The primary responsibility of an Operations

Manager working at any level, for production or service based organization, is to help and

facilitate the building of walls. It's a demanding job but at the time takes the same amount of

time required by people who are creating hurdles and end up building walls in stead of bridges.

Also, it is important at this point in time to understand that the Strength of the Chain is equal to

the strength of the weakest Link, so if your analysis, as an operations manager consists of both

Engineering and Management Links. Any weakness of analysis in Engineering or Management

Link would lead to an overall weak analysis. A balanced approach would be to make best use of

the strength and overcome the weaknesses. As a rule of thumb, problem solving and decision

making through Production and Operations Management would entail that both Engineering

and Management aspects should be utilized to aim for the powerful systems ( over all big

picture) approach.

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